redware
noun
redware is a noun meaning “A type of terracotta given a red colour by its concentration of ferrous oxide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-D-W-A-R-E, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of redware is redwares.
What does redware mean?
noun
- 1
A type of terracotta given a red colour by its concentration of ferrous oxide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of redware
- redwares plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is redware?
Redware appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does redware come from?
From red + -ware.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).